Help Center/ Elastic Load Balance/ Billing/ Renewing Subscriptions/ Auto-renewing a Load Balancer
Updated on 2025-09-16 GMT+08:00
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Auto-renewing a Load Balancer

Auto-renewal can prevent load balancers from being automatically released if you forget to manually renew them. The auto-renewal rules are as follows:

  • The first auto-renewal date is based on when a load balancer expires and the billing cycle.
  • The auto-renewal period of a load balancer varies depending on how you enable auto-renewal.
  • You can enable auto-renewal anytime before a load balancer expires. By default, the system will make the first attempt to charge your account for the renewal at 03:00, seven days before the expiry date. If this attempt fails, it will make another attempt at 03:00 every day until the subscription is renewed or expires.
  • After auto-renewal is enabled, you can still renew the load balancer manually if you want to. After a manual renewal is complete, auto-renewal is still valid, and the renewal fee will be deducted from your account seven days before the new expiry date.
  • By default, the renewal fee is deducted from your account seven days before the new expiry date. You can change this auto-renewal payment date as required.

For more information about auto-renewal rules, see Auto-Renewal Rules.

Prerequisites

The yearly/monthly load balancer is not expired.

Enabling Auto-Renewal During Purchase

You can enable auto-renewal when buying a load balancer. For details, see Creating a Dedicated Load Balancer.

The auto-renewal period of a load balancer depends on the subscription term.

  • Monthly subscriptions renew each month.
  • Yearly subscriptions renew each year.

Enabling Auto-Renewal on the Renewals Page

  1. Go to the Renewals page.
  2. Set the search criteria.
    1. On the Auto Renewals page, you can view resources for which auto-renewal has been enabled.
    2. You can enable auto-renewal for resources on the Manual Renewals, Pay-per-Use After Expiration, and Renewals Canceled tabs.
  3. Enable auto-renewal for yearly/monthly load balancers.
    1. Enabling auto-renewal for a single resource: Select the load balancer for which you want to enable auto-renewal and choose More > Enable Auto-Renewal in the Operation column.
    2. Enabling auto-renewal for multiple resources at a time: Select the load balancers for which you want to enable auto-renewal and click Enable Auto-Renewal above the list.
  4. Select a renewal period, specify the auto-renewal times, and click OK.
  5. If auto-renewal is enabled on the Renewals page, the auto-renewal period is subject to the selected renewal period and number of auto-renewals. For example, if you set the New Auto-Renew Period to 3 months and Auto-renewals to Unlimited, your subscription is automatically renewed for three months before it expires.
Parent topic: Renewing Subscriptions